Ducksworth v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2018
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Bruton v. United States · Powell v. Nevada · Koza v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The most damaging evidence of all came from Kenya Crawl and A1 Shuaid. . . . Although Ducksworth’s confession did not specifically name Martin as the other party involved at trial, there was overwhelming evidence of Martin's involvement. . . . This, combined with the fact that Ducksworth said he was against killing Vikki, show an obvious link between Martin and the murder of Vikki. Both A1 Shuaid and Kenya Crawl testified that Ducksworth admitted that Vikki had been raped both orally and anally. . . . [T]he jury could have easily concluded that both Defendants were guilty of sexual assault. . . . Martin also might have committed the offense [of sexual assault] for the simple reason that Ducksworth admitted to doing everything else except those crimes that occurred against Vikki.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ducksworth v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.